Bonilla-Pons, Sergi A. (Date of defense: 2021-04-30)
Visual impairments and different retinopathies have been silently increasing in the modern society and they become a medical hurdle in need to be addressed. Müller glial cells (MGCs), in lower vertebrates, ...
Bonàs Guarch, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)
The major landmark in modern genomic and biological research has been the first survey of the entire human genome. On June 2000 the staging of Bill Clinton along with Craig Venter and Francis Collins ...
Llorens Marès, Tomàs (Date of defense: 2015-07-28)
The main objective of this PhD dissertation was to unveil the links between biogeochemistry and microbial diversity using metagenomics functional potential as a proxy to connect a mechanistic perspective ...
Lobón García, Irene (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)
Somatic mutations are those that arise after the zygote is formed and are therefore inherited by a fraction of the cells of an individual. Their relevance in certain skin diseases has been known for ...
González Rosado, Santiago (Date of defense: 2016-04-28)
The genetic and molecular bases of most of the human diseases have become one of the main goals of the human biology in the last decades. To be able to unveil the genetic variations and the affected ...
Schikora Tamarit, Miquel Àngel (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)
[eng] Fungal infections pose a serious health threat, affecting >1,000 million people and causing ~1.5 million deaths each year. The problem is growing due to insufficient diagnostic and therapeutic ...
Alonso Parrilla, Lorena (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
[eng] One of the major and most challenging goals of Biomedicine during the last centuries has been the study of the human biological mechanisms, and its relation with traits and diseases. Particularly, ...
Matías Sánchez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
[eng] In recent years, the genetics field has placed a significant emphasis on identifying and characterizing genetic factors contributing to complex diseases, alongside environmental factors. Genome-wide ...